series: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

Published by De Gruyter

Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

Edited by: Andrew James Johnston, Ursula Lenker, Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl and Daniel Stein

ISSN: 0340-5435

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

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The peer-reviewed Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

book: Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk

Book 2023

Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk

Networks in US American Literature and Culture

Regina Schober

Volume 82 in this series

Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk explores the shifting functions of the network as a metaphor, model, and as an epistemological framework in US American literature and culture from the 19^th century until today. The book critically inquires into the literary, cultural, philosophical, and scientific rhetoric, values, and ideological underpinnings that have given rise to the network concept. Literature and culture play a major role in the ways in which networks have been imagined and how they have evolved as conceptual models. This study regards networks as historically emergent and culturally constructed formations closely tied with the development of knowledge technologies in the process of modernization as well as with an increasingly critical awareness of network technologies and infrastructures. While the rise of the network in scientific, philosophical, political and sociological discourses has received wide attention, this book contributes an important cultural and historical perspective to network theory by demonstrating how US American literature and culture have been key sites for thinking in and about networks in the past two centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111060590
ISBN:: 9783111060590
ISBN:: 9783111060842
ISBN:: 9783111060262
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World

Book Ahead of Publication 2025

Epistolarity in a Post-Letter World

Five Contemporary American Case Studies

Sindija Franzetti

Volume 83 in this series

The study intervenes in a field hitherto dominated by formal and historical analyses of the literary letter. Across the five case studies, the method of reading epistolarity as a motif is applied to a selection of American novels published after 1990: Nick Bantock’s Griffin & Sabine series (1991-2016), Gordon Lish’s Epigraph (1996), Mark Dunn’s Ella Minnow Pea (2001), Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (2004), and Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (2017). The texts encompass considerable formal and thematic variations: Bantock seeks a return to the literary letter; Lish and Dunn test the limitations of letters for conveying individual experience to a distant other; Robinson and Erdrich envision epistolarity as an address to a future. Exploring the employment of epistolarity as a motif, the study offers an interpretation of the messages these fictions extend for readers in a post-letter world. Communication technologies and practices may change, but epistolarity as a motif - a reprise of a scene of encounter that depends on keeping a distance between addresser and addressee – remains a deeply compelling site of inquiry in twenty-first-century literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111157375
ISBN:: 9783111157375
ISBN:: 9783111158389
ISBN:: 9783111155081
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Diaries, Letters and Journals
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Book 2023

Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Yvonne Liebermann

Volume 81 in this series

Up until fairly recently, memory used to be mainly considered within the frames of the nation and related mechanisms of group identity. Building on mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, this form of memory focused on the event as a central category of meaning making. Taking its cue from a number of Anglophone novels, this book examines the indeterminate traces of memories in literary texts that are not overtly concerned with memory but still latently informed by the past. More concretely, it analyzes novels that do not directly address memories and do not focus on the event as a central meaning making category. Relegating memory to the realm of the latent, that is the not-directly-graspable dimensions of a text, the novels that this book analyses withdraw from overt memory discourses and create new ways of re-membering that refigure the temporal tripartite of past, present and future and negotiate what is ‘memorable’ in the first place. Combining the analysis of the novels’ overall structure with close readings of selected passages, this book links latency as a mode of memory with the productive agency of formal literary devices that work both on the micro and macro level, activating readers to challenge their learned ways of reading for memory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111067384
ISBN:: 9783111067384
ISBN:: 9783111067780
ISBN:: 9783111063584
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Aliens Within

Book 2022

The Aliens Within

Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor

Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner

Volume 80 in this series

Discrimination, stigmatization, xenophobia, heightened securitization – fear and blaming of "aliens within" – characterize the world infected by COVID-19. Such fears have a long cultural history, however, particularly in connecting pathology with race, poverty, and migration. This volume explores theory and narratives of disease, danger, and displacement through the lenses of cultural, literary, and film studies, historical representation, ethnics studies, sociology and cultural geography, classics, music, and linguistics. Investigations range from, for example, illness discourse in the ancient classics to images of perilous intruders in the Age of Trump, from the Haitian Revolution and subsequent zombie stereotypes to current, problematic refugee resettlement in the US South and Greek islands, from the urban underworld in nineteenth-century sensation novels to ethnic women "on the stroll" in coronavirus times. The collection is organized into three thematically intertwined parts: Stigmatizing the Racialized Underclass; Pathologizing the Other; Constructing and Countering Collapse. It examines changing or recurrent aporias in tropes of belonging and exclusion, as well as the birthing of new forms of identity, agency, and countercultural expression.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789799
ISBN:: 9783110789799
ISBN:: 9783110789744
ISBN:: 9783110789843
ISBN:: 9783111536651
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing

Book 2022

The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing

Jolene Mathieson, Marius Henderson, Julia Lange

Volume 79 in this series

In the last twenty years, how has U.S.-American writing and the reading public responded to the complexity of an American culture resolutely situated in a larger, highly politicized, globalized world undergoing radical change? The 20th-century modes of realism and postmodernism have been succeeded by writerly practices that are that are invested in the idea of embodied ‘authenticity’ and that are relatable to neorealism, whether it be via outright affirmation or critical experimentation and appropriation. The individual case studies mark the ways in which postmillennial U.S.-American writing is marked by an ongoing awareness toward complexity and the entanglement of writers and the reading public with pressing political concerns, and, at times oppressive, social and economic discursive and structural formations. These contributions further attest to how narrative and structural complexity, grammatical and lexical sophistication, and social nuance endure as the main literary modes of confronting 21st-century political life. This volume is thus of interest for both the study of U.S.-American political culture and U.S.-American literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110771350
ISBN:: 9783110771350
ISBN:: 9783111533728
ISBN:: 9783110771411
ISBN:: 9783110771282
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory

Book 2023

Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory

Mathilde Köstler

Volume 78 in this series

How does Cajun literature, emerging in the 1980s, represent the dynamic processes of remembering in Cajun culture?

Known for its hybrid constitution and deeply ingrained oral traditions, Cajun culture provides an ideal testing ground for investigating the collective memory of a group. In particular, francophone and anglophone Cajun texts by such writers as Jean Arceneaux, Tim Gautreaux, Jeanne Castille, Zachary Richard, Ron Thibodeaux, Darrell Bourque, and Kirby Jambon reveal not only a shift from an oral to a written tradition. They also show hybrid perspectives on the Cajun collective memory. Based on recurring references to place, the texts also reflect on the (Acadian) past and reveal the innate ability of the Cajuns to adapt through repeated intertextual references. The Cajun collective memory is thus defined by a transnational outlook, a transversality cutting across various ethnic heritages to establish and legitimize a collective identity both amid the linguistic and cultural diversity in Louisiana, and in the face of American mainstream culture.

Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory represents the first analysis of the mnemonic strategies Cajun writers use to explore and sustain the Cajun identity and collective memory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110772715
ISBN:: 9783110772715
ISBN:: 9783110772777
ISBN:: 9783110772630
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: British Romanticism and the Archive

Book 2022

British Romanticism and the Archive

Loss, Archives and Spectrality

David Kerler

Volume 77 in this series

Taking its cue from Jacques Derrida’s concept of le mal d’archive, this study explores the interrelations between the experience of loss, melancholia, archives and their (self-)destructive tendencies, surfacing in different forms of spectrality, in selected poetry of British Romanticism. It argues that the British Romantics were highly influenced by the period’s archival fever – manifesting itself in various historical, material, technological and cultural aspects – and (implicitly) reflected and engaged with these discourses and materialities/medialities in their works. This is scrutinized by focusing on two basal, closely related facets: the subject’s feverish desire to archive and the archive’s (self-)destructive tendencies, which may also surface in an ambivalent, melancholic relishing in the archived object’s presence within its absence. Through this new theoretical perspective, details and coherence previously gone unnoticed shall be laid bare, ultimately contributing to a new and more profound understanding of British Romanticism(s). It will be shown that the various discursive and material manifestations of archives and archival practices not only echo the period’s technological-cultural and historical developments along with its incisive experiencing of loss, but also fundamentally determine Romantic subjectivity and aesthetics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110775556
ISBN:: 9783110775556
ISBN:: 9783110775624
ISBN:: 9783110775501
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

Book 2022

Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction

Eva Ries

Volume 76 in this series

Even though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed ‘dead’ on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated ‘ethical turn’ in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on the ‘aesthetics of existence’ as well as Judith Butler’s notion of precariousness as conditio humana, it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold, Teju Cole’s Open City, Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Robin Robertson’s The Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767490
ISBN:: 9783110767490
ISBN:: 9783111530925
ISBN:: 9783110767520
ISBN:: 9783110767476
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Stories in Letters - Letters in Stories

Book 2021

Stories in Letters - Letters in Stories

Epistolary Liminalities in the Anglophone Canadian Short Story

Rebekka Schuh

Volume 75 in this series

This book deals with letters in Anglophone Canadian short stories of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century in the context of liminality. It argues that in the course of the epistolary renaissance, the letter – which has often been deemed to be obsolete in literature – has not only enjoyed an upsurge in novels but also migrated to the short story, thus constituting the genre of the epistolary short story.

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726190
ISBN:: 9783110726190
ISBN:: 9783110726725
ISBN:: 9783110726237
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Political Anxiety in Golden Age Children's Classics and Their Contemporary Adaptations

Book 2021

Political Anxiety in Golden Age Children's Classics and Their Contemporary Adaptations

Jasmin Sültemeyer

Volume 74 in this series

As striking, counter-intuitive and distasteful as the combination of children and anxiety may seem, some of the most popular children's classics abound in depictions of traumatic relationships, bloody wars and helpless heroes. This book draws on Freudian and Lacanian anxiety models to investigate the psychological and political significance of this curious juxtaposition, as it stands out in Golden Age novels from both sides of the Atlantic and their present-day adaptations. The stories discussed in detail, so the argument goes, identify specific anxieties and forms of anxiety management as integral elements of hegemonial middle-class identity. Apart from its audacious link between psychoanalysis and Marxist, feminist, as well as postcolonial ideology criticism, this study provides a nuanced analysis of the ways in which allegedly trivial texts negotiate questions of individual and (trans)national identities. In doing so, it offers a fresh look at beloved tales like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan, contributes to the dynamic field of adaptation studies and highlights the necessity to approach children's entertainment more seriously and more sensitively than it is generally the case.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742763
ISBN:: 9783110742763
ISBN:: 9783110742831
ISBN:: 9783110742657
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Making Black History

Book Open Access 2021

Making Black History

Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism

Dominique Haensell

Volume 73 in this series

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This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics – Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism.

Discursively, this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race, class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment.

Please read our interview with Dominique Haensell here:
https://blog.degruyter.com/de-gruyters-10th-open-access-book-anniversary-dominique-haensell-and-her-winning-title-making-black-history/

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722093
ISBN:: 9783110722093
ISBN:: 9783111266657
ISBN:: 9783110721942
ISBN:: 9783110722147
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Age of Curiosity

Book 2021

The Age of Curiosity

The Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Simone Broders

Volume 72 in this series

Challenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the ‘development’ of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them.

The text corpus focuses on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from all major genres.

The Age of Curiosity contributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy’s history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of ‘identity’ or ‘truth’, and its potential as cura, the care for others and the world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722048
ISBN:: 9783110722048
ISBN:: 9783110722208
ISBN:: 9783110721911
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Fictions of Infinity

Book 2020

Fictions of Infinity

Levinasian Ethics in 21st-Century Novels

Martin Riedelsheimer

Volume 71 in this series

This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a book and finds an answer that combines conceptual metaphor theory with concepts from classical narratology and beyond, such as mise en abyme, textual circularity, intertextuality or omniscient narration. It argues that texts with such structures may be conceptualised as infinite via Lakoff and Núñez’s Basic Metaphor of Infinity. The catachrestic transfer of infinity from structure to text means that the texts themselves are understood to be infinite. Taking its cue from the central role of the infinite in Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics, the function of such ‘fictions of infinity’ turns out to be ethical: infinite textuality disrupts reading patterns and calls into question the reader’s spontaneity to interpret. This hypothesis is put to the test in detailed readings of four 21st-century novels, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and John Banville’s The Infinities. This book thus combines ethical criticism with structural aesthetics to uncover ethical potential in fiction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712407
ISBN:: 9783110712407
ISBN:: 9783110995244
ISBN:: 9783110712346
ISBN:: 9783110712421
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics

Book 2021

Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics

Lukas Etter

Volume 70 in this series

Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics addresses the benefits and limits of analyses of style in alternative comics. It offers three close readings of works serially published between 1980 and 2018 – Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For, and Jason Lutes’ Berlin – and discusses how artistic style may influence the ways in which readers construct authorship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693683
ISBN:: 9783110693683
ISBN:: 9783110693799
ISBN:: 9783110693522
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing

Book 2020

Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing

Anneke Lubkowitz

Volume 69 in this series

This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of ‘natural’ space as empty of human history and social conflict. Building on a theoretical framework which combines insights from ecocriticism and spatial theory, the author explores the spatial dimensions of haunting and ‘hauntology’ and shows how 21^st-century writers draw on a Gothic repertoire of seemingly supernatural occurrences and spectral imagery to portray ‘natural’ space as disturbed, uncanny and socially contested. Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane are revealed to apply psychogeography’s interest in ‘hidden histories’ and haunted places to spaces associated with ‘wilderness’ and ‘the countryside’. Kathleen Jamie’s allusions to the Gothic are put in relation to her feminist re-writing of ‘the outdoors’, and John Burnside’s use of haunting is shown to dismantle fictions of ‘the far north’. This book provides not only a discussion of a wide range of factual and fictional narratives of the present but also an analysis of the intertextual dialogue with the Romantic tradition which enfolds in these texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110678611
ISBN:: 9783110678611
ISBN:: 9783110678642
ISBN:: 9783110678598
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Anecdotal Modernity

Book 2021

Anecdotal Modernity

Making and Unmaking History

James Dorson, Florian Sedlmeier, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, Birte Wege

Volume 68 in this series

Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal. Conceived as a literary genre, a narrative element of criticism, and, most crucially, a mode of historiography, the anecdote illuminates the convergences as well as the fault lines cutting across modern practices of knowledge production. The volume explores uses of the anecdotal in exemplary case studies from the threshold of the early modern to the present.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668490
ISBN:: 9783110668490
ISBN:: 9783110629538
ISBN:: 9783110665734
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts

Book 2019

Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts

Ursula Lenker, Lucia Kornexl

Volume 67 in this series

In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110630961
ISBN:: 9783110630961
ISBN:: 9783110629439
ISBN:: 9783110629842
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: History of Literary Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Risk and the English Novel

Book 2019

Risk and the English Novel

From Defoe to McEwan

Julia Hoydis

Volume 66 in this series

Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability theory in the late seventeenth century to the global ‘risk society’ in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the construction of individual or collective ‘logics’ of risk, which oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster around risk.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615418
ISBN:: 9783110615418
ISBN:: 9783110765977
ISBN:: 9783110615562
ISBN:: 9783110614862
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse

Book 2019

The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse

Approaching the Inexplicable

Silke Braselmann

Volume 65 in this series

Ever since the 1990s, school shootings have shocked the public in their brutality, their suddenness, and their inexplicability. While film and literature have played a role in the heated debates about so-called copycat crimes, the growing body of fictionalizations of school shootings has been neglected thus far. However, in a discourse in which the boundaries between fiction and reality are increasingly blurred, this book shows how fiction shapes and structures, challenges and disrupts cultural processes of meaning-making. Hence, for a better understanding of the school shooting phenomenon, the relevance of fiction on all levels of discourse construction requires thorough analysis. This book therefore develops a new approach to the role of fiction for contemporary forms of excessive violence. By combining narrative theory with insights from sociology and other disciplines, it provides the means for apprehending and describing the relevance of fiction for contemporary discourses. Furthermore, it provides exemplary analyses of more specific functions of literary and filmic fictionalizations of school shootings between 2000 and 2016.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110649017
ISBN:: 9783110649017
ISBN:: 9783110766059
ISBN:: 9783110647358
ISBN:: 9783110647624
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition

Book 2019

Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition

Daniella Jancsó

Volume 64 in this series

Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition reveals the unique value of metapoems for exploring twentieth-century poetry. By placing these texts into a hitherto barely investigated literary-historical perspective, it demonstrates that modern metapoetry is steeped in the lyric tradition to a much greater extent than previously acknowledged. Since these literary continuities that cut across epochal boundaries can be traced across all major poetic movements, they challenge established accounts of the history of twentieth-century poetry that postulate a radical break with the (immediate) past. Moreover, the finding that metapoems perpetuate traditional forms and topoi distinguishes metapoetry historically and systematically from metafiction and metadrama. After highlighting the most important differences as regards to the function of metareference in poetry on the one side, and in fiction and drama on the other, the book concludes with a discussion of how to account for these generic differences theoretically. With its "extraordinarily subtle and perceptive" (Ronald Bush, St. John's College, Oxford) interpretive readings of over one hundred metapoems by canonical anglophone authors, it offers the first representative selection of twentieth-century poems about poetry in English.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110631722
ISBN:: 9783110631722
ISBN:: 9783110629859
ISBN:: 9783110629422
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Poem Unlimited

Book 2019

Poem Unlimited

New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre

David Kerler, Timo Müller

Volume 63 in this series

Questions of genres as well as their possible definitions, taxonomies, and functions have been discussed since antiquity. Even though categories of genre today are far from being fixed, they have for decades been upheld without question. The goal of this volume is to problematize traditional definitions of poetic genres and to situate them in a broader socio-cultural, historical, and theoretical context. The contributions encompass numerous methodological approaches (including hermeneutics, poststructuralism, reception theory, cultural studies, gender studies), periods (Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism), genres (elegy, sonnet, visual poetry, performance poetry, hip hop) as well as languages and national literatures. From this interdisciplinary and multi-methodological perspective, genres, periods, languages, and literatures are put into fruitful dialogue, new perspectives are discovered, and suggestions for further research are provided.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110594874
ISBN:: 9783110594874
ISBN:: 9783110765953
ISBN:: 9783110592665
ISBN:: 9783110592405
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Exile Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Epistolary Renaissance

Book Open Access 2018

The Epistolary Renaissance

A Critical Approach to Contemporary Letter Narratives in Anglophone Fiction

Maria Löschnigg, Rebekka Schuh, Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 62 in this series

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Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in recent fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary writers, of letters as an effective tool for rendering aspects of historicity, liminality, marginalization and the expression of subjectivity vis-à-vis an ‘other’; it is also due, however, to the artistically challenging inclusion of the new electronic media of communication into fiction.
While studies of epistolary fiction have so far concentrated on the eighteenth century and on thematic concerns, this volume charts the epistolary renaissance in recent literature, entering new territory by also focusing on the aesthetic implications of the epistolary mode. In particular, the essays in this volume illuminate the potential of the epistolary (including digital forms) for rendering contemporary sensitivities. The volume thus offers a comprehensive assessment of letter narratives in contemporary literature. Through its focus on the aesthetic and structural aspects of new epistolary fiction, the inclusion of various narrative forms, and the consideration of both conventional letters and their new digital kindred, The Epistolary Renaissance offers novel insight into a multi-facetted (re)new(ed) genre.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110584813
ISBN:: 9783110584813
ISBN:: 9783110709674
ISBN:: 9783110582178
ISBN:: 9783110582024
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Diaries, Letters and Journals
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies

Book 2018

Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Nassim Winnie Balestrini, Ina Bergmann

Volume 61 in this series

This collection of essays gathers innovative and compelling research on intermedial forms of life writing by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Among their subjects of scrutiny are biographies, memoirs, graphic novels, performances, paratheatricals, musicals, silent films, movies, documentary films, and social media. The volume covers a time frame ranging from the nineteenth century to the immediate present. In addition to a shared focus on theories of intermediality and life writing, the authors apply to their subjects both firmly established and cutting-edge theoretical approaches from Cultural Narratology, Cultural History, Biographical Studies, Social Media Studies, Performance Studies, and Visual Culture Studies. The collection also features interviews with practitioners in biography who have produced monographs, films, and novels.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110579253
ISBN:: 9783110579253
ISBN:: 9783110709629
ISBN:: 9783110576757
ISBN:: 9783110576818
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer

Book 2018

Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer

Nicole Nyffenegger, Katrin Rupp

Volume 60 in this series

Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical, religious, philosophical, and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. It presents four main aspects of the complex relations between text, parchment, and human skin as they have been discussed in recent scholarship. These four aspects are, first, the (mostly figurative) resonances between parchment-making and transformations of human skin, second, parchment as a space of contact between animal and human spheres, third, human skin and parchment as sites where (gender) identities are negotiated, and fourth, the place of medieval skin studies within cultural studies and its relationship to the major concerns of cultural studies: the difficult demarcation of skin from body, the instability of any inscription, and the skin’s precarious state as an entity of its own.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110578133
ISBN:: 9783110578133
ISBN:: 9783110709612
ISBN:: 9783110575873
ISBN:: 9783110575729
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: From Chaos to Catastrophe?

Book 2018

From Chaos to Catastrophe?

Texts and the Transitionality of the Mind

K. Ludwig Pfeiffer

Volume 59 in this series

This book focuses on the tensions between processes of consciousness and their products like worldviews, theories, models of thought etc. Staying close to their technical meanings in chaos and catastrophe theory, chaotic processes are described in mainly neurobiological and evolutionary terms while products are delineated in their evolutionary logic. Given both a relative opacity of processes of the mind and of the outside world, the dramatic quality of the processes, a certain closeness to ‘hysterical’ and ‘schizophrenic’ tendencies and, within the context of the weakening orientating power of worldviews, an alarming catastrophic potential emerge.
As a consequence, the book aims at a comparative cost-benefit analysis of the transitionality between ‘chaotic’ processes of consciousness and the often ‘catastrophic’ implications of their products within historical frameworks. The central thesis consists in the increasing failure in the orientation of action which cannot be contained by systems of ethics. Materials for this analysis are mainly drawn from texts normally called literary in which the tension between biographical and historical dimensions provides profiles of chaos and catastrophe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110581836
ISBN:: 9783110581836
ISBN:: 9783110683752
ISBN:: 9783110579475
ISBN:: 9783110579345
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Other Topics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Female Performers in British and American Fiction

Book 2018

Female Performers in British and American Fiction

Barbara Straumann

Volume 58 in this series

The female performer with a public voice constitutes a remarkably vibrant theme in British and American narratives of the long nineteenth century. The tension between fictional female performers and other textual voices can be seen to refigure the cultural debate over the ‘voice’ of women in aesthetically complex ways. By focusing on singers, actresses, preachers and speakers, this book traces and explores an important tradition of feminine articulation.
Drawing on critical approaches in literary studies, gender studies and philosophy, the book conceptualizes voice for the discussion of narrative texts. Examining voice both as a thematic concern and as an aesthetic effect, the individual chapters analyse how the actual articulation by female performers correlates with their cultural visibility and agency. What this study foregrounds is how women characters succeed in making themselves heard even if their voices are silenced in the end.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110561043
ISBN:: 9783110561043
ISBN:: 9783110558661
ISBN:: 9783110558425
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Gender and Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Hidden Topographies

Book 2017

Hidden Topographies

Traces of Urban Reality in Dystopian Fiction

Raphael Zähringer

Volume 57 in this series

This book examines dystopian fiction’s recent paradigm shift towards urban dystopias. It links the dystopian tradition with the literary history of the novel, spatio-philosophical concepts against the backdrop of the spatial turn, and systems-theory. Five dystopian novels are discussed in great detail: China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station (2000) and The City & The City (2009), City of Bohane (2011) by Kevin Barry, John Berger’s Lilac and Flag (1992), and Divided Kingdom (2005) by Rupert Thomson. The book includes chapters on the literary history of the dystopian tradition, the referential interplay of maps and literature, urban spaces in literature, borders and transgressions, and on systems-theory as a tool for charting dystopian fiction. The result is a detailed overview of how dystopian fiction constantly adapts to – and reflects on – the actual world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110535853
ISBN:: 9783110535853
ISBN:: 9783110635287
ISBN:: 9783110533965
ISBN:: 9783110533910
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 21st Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe

Book 2017

The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe

Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric

Gero Guttzeit

Volume 56 in this series

The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe is the first study to address the rhetorical dimensions of Poe’s textual and discursive practices. It argues that Poe is a figure and figurer of the emergence of the modern understanding of literature in the early nineteenth century that resulted from the birth of the romantic author and the so-called ‘death of rhetoric’. Building on accounts of Poe as a skilled navigator of American antebellum print culture, Gero Guttzeit reinterprets Poe as representative of the vital role that transatlantic rhetoric played in antebellum literature. He investigates rhetorical figures of the author in Poe’s critical writings, tales, poems, and lectures to give a new account of Poe’s significance for antebellum literary culture. In so doing, he also proposes a general rhetorical theory of theoretical, poetical, and performative figures of the author. Beyond Poe studies, the book intervenes in current debates on the romantic origins of the modern author and demonstrates that rhetorical theory offers new ways of exploring authorship beyond the nineteenth century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110520156
ISBN:: 9783110520156
ISBN:: 9783110635270
ISBN:: 9783110518184
ISBN:: 9783110518146
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality

Book 2017

The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality

The Humane Images of Modernism

Betsy van Schlun

Volume 55 in this series

Pool was an avant-garde group that originated in 1927 in Britain and was active under this name until 1933. The group consisted of the well-known modernist poet H.D., the English writer Bryher, and the young Scottish writer and artist Kenneth Macpherson. All three were first and foremost writers, who at one point discovered film as another modern, experimental medium of artistic expression. Pool associated with almost all the iconic modernists of their time, with Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemmingway, James Joyce, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, to name only a few. In addition, due to their interest in film, they were also befriended with such influential filmmakers as Sergei Eisenstein and Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and became closely associated with Weimar Berlin film culture.
Pool unites classical Modernism and modernity, two directions that are usually considered to be contradictory. The Pool phenomenon opens a new perspective onto Modernism and prompts a reconsideration of its canonical texts and figures. Contrary to many artists of Modernism, who devised highly individualistic aesthetic styles, the artists of Pool strove towards a universal art of humanity that was rooted in all-human nature and psychology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110491081
ISBN:: 9783110491081
ISBN:: 9783110488678
ISBN:: 9783110439212
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: J.G. Ballard’s Politics

Book 2017

J.G. Ballard’s Politics

Late Capitalism, Power, and the Pataphysics of Resistance

Florian Cord

Volume 54 in this series

This book is the first sustained investigation of the political dimension in the work of J.G. Ballard. A product of and reaction to the cultural-socio-economic moment commonly designated as the postmodern condition, Ballard’s oeuvre is read as a continuous and developing meditation on the postmodern, examining it specifically as an expression of late capitalism. The book shows that at the heart of this meditation lies the question of resistance. Drawing on a wide range of concepts and ideas taken from the field of critical theory, it argues that in the face of a world marked by an unprecedented expansion of capital, in which modernity’s grand narratives have been invalidated and in which received forms of political struggle have lost their effectiveness, Ballard’s fiction commits itself to a deliberately irrational and extreme, pataphysical thought in order to develop a new discourse of resistance. Against past readings that have construed Ballard’s writing as non-political, decadent, or quietist, the study thus reveals Ballard as a thoroughly political author, committed to a subversive politics. In this way, the book also constitutes a timely intervention in the ongoing discussion concerning the nature and state of the political.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110490718
ISBN:: 9783110490718
ISBN:: 9783110635232
ISBN:: 9783110487893
ISBN:: 9783110488302
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 20th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Traveling Traditions

Book 2016

Traveling Traditions

Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks

Erik Redling

Volume 53 in this series

This study seeks to fill a major gap in the fields of Nineteenth-Century American and British Studies by examining how nineteenth-century intellectuals shaped and re-shaped aesthetic traditions across the Atlantic Ocean. Special attention is paid to a group of salient cultural concepts, such as artist-as-hero, imagination, the picturesque, reform, simultaneity, and seriality. Although embedded in a particular aesthetic tradition, these concepts travel from one culture to another and are transformed along their transatlantic journeys. The purpose of this book is to explore the roles of these ‘traveling concepts’ within the realm of transatlantic cultures and to trace their at times surprising paths within ever-widening transnational intellectual networks.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110411744
ISBN:: 9783110411744
ISBN:: 9783110411782
ISBN:: 9783110411669
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works

Book 2016

Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works

Interdisciplinary Essays

Johanna Hartmann, Christine Marks, Hubert Zapf

Volume 52 in this series

This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine – to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writers. In her significance and stature as a public intellectual, she is not merely an American writer but a transnational, cosmopolitan author, who develops new forms not only of literary narrative but of interdisciplinary thought and writing, bringing together otherwise separated genres and branches of knowledge in a broad spectrum between literature and philosophy, historiography and art, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, narrative and medicine. The present volume is structured into the parts “Literary Creation and Communication,” Psychoanalysis and Philosophy,” “Medicine and Narrative,” “Vision, Perception, and Power,” and “Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self” and closes with an interview of Siri Hustvedt by Susanne Becker in which Hustvedt elucidates her personal conception of her own creative processes of writing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110407723
ISBN:: 9783110407723
ISBN:: 9783110578690
ISBN:: 9783110407709
ISBN:: 9783110407761
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels

Book 2016

The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels

Language, Author and Context

Julia Fernández Cuesta, Sara M. Pons-Sanz

Volume 51 in this series

Aldred’s interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.IV) is one of the most substantial representatives of the Old English variety known as late Old Northumbrian. Although it has received a great deal of attention in the past two centuries, there are still numerous issues which remain unresolved. The papers in this collection approach the gloss from a variety of perspectives – language, cultural milieu, palaeography, glossography – in order to shed light on many of these issues, such as the authorship of the gloss, the morphosyntax and vocabulary of the dialect(s) it represents, its sources and relationship to the Rushworth Gospels, and Aldred’s cultural and religious affiliations. Because of its breadth of coverage, the collection will be of interest and great value to scholars in the fields of Anglo-Saxon studies and English historical linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449105
ISBN:: 9783110449105
ISBN:: 9783110635294
ISBN:: 9783110447163
ISBN:: 9783110438567
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Dark Nights, Bright Lights

Book 2015

Dark Nights, Bright Lights

Night, Darkness, and Illumination in Literature

Susanne Bach, Folkert Degenring

Volume 50 in this series

Light and darkness shape our perception of the world. This is true in a literal sense, but also metaphorically: in theology, philosophy, literature and the arts the light of day signifies life, safety, knowledge and all that is good, while the darkness of the night suggests death, danger, ignorance and evil.

A closer inspection, however, reveals that things are not quite so clear cut and that light and darkness cannot be understood as simple binary opposites. On a biological level, for example, daylight and darkness are inseparable factors in the calibration of our circadian rhythms, and a lack of periodical darkness appears to be as contrary to health as a lack of exposure to sunlight. On a cultural level, too, night and darkness are far from being universally condemnable: in fiction, drama and poetry the darkness of the night allows not only nightmares but also dreams, it allows criminals to ply their trade and allows lovers to meet, it allows the pursuit of pleasure as well as deep thought, it allows metamorphoses, transformations and transgressions unthinkable in the light of day. But night is not merely darkness. The night gains significance as an alternative space, as an ‘other of the day’, only when it is at least partially illuminated.

The volume examines the interconnection of night, darkness and nocturnal illumination across a broad range of literary texts. The individual essays examine historically specific light conditions in literature, tracing the symbolic and metaphoric content of darkness and illumination and the attitudes towards them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110415292
ISBN:: 9783110415100
ISBN:: 9783110415292
ISBN:: 9783110578621
ISBN:: 9783110415629
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Postmodern Plagiarisms

Book 2015

Postmodern Plagiarisms

Cultural Agenda and Aesthetic Strategies of Appropriation in US-American Literature (1970–2010)

Mirjam Horn

Volume 49 in this series

This monograph takes on the question of how literary plagiarism is defined, exposed, and sanctioned in Western culture and how appropriating language assigned to another author can be considered a radical subversive act in postmodern US-American literature. While various forms of art such as music, painting, or theater have come to institutionalize appropriation as a valid mode to ventilate what authorship, originality, and the anxiety of influence may mean, the literary sphere still has a hard time acknowledging the unmarked acquisition of words, ideas, and manuscripts. The author shows how postmodern plagiarism in particular serves as a literary strategy of appropriation at the interface between literary economics, law, and theoretical discourses of literature. She investigates the complex expectations surrounding the strong link between an individual author subject and its alienable text, a link that several postmodern writers powerfully question and violate. Identifying three distinct practices of postmodern plagiarism, the book examines their specific situatedness, precepts, and subversive potential as litmus tests for the literary market, and the ongoing dynamic notion of the concepts authorship, originality, and creativity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110379105
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037895-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037910-5
ISBN:: 9783110394269
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Rhetoric
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Postethnic Literary

Book 2014

The Postethnic Literary

Reading Paratexts and Transpositions around 2000

Florian Sedlmeier

Volume 48 in this series

The book explores the discursive and theoretical conditions for conceptualizing the postethnic literary. It historicizes US multicultural and postcolonial studies as institutionalized discursive formations, which constitute a paratext that regulates the reception of literary texts according to the paradigm of representativeness. Rather than following that paradigm, the study offers an alternative framework by rereading contemporary literary texts for their investment in literary form. By means of self-reflective intermedial transpositions, the writings of Sherman Alexie, Chang-rae Lee, and Jamaica Kincaid insist upon a differentiation between the representation of cultural sign systems or subject positions and the dramatization of individual gestures of authorship. As such, they form a postethnic literary constellation, further probed in the epilogue of the study focused on Dave Eggers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368482
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037370-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036848-2
ISBN:: 9783110409116
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Postcolonial Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain

Book 2014

The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain

Discourse between Attacks and Authority

Sebastian Domsch

Volume 47 in this series

This study tries, through a systematic and historical analysis of the concept of critical authority, to write a history of literary criticism from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century that not only takes the discursive construction of its (self)representation into account, but also the social and economic conditions of its practice. It tries to consider the whole of the critical discourse on literature and criticism in the time period covered. Thus, it is distinctive through its methodology (there is no systematic account of the historical development of critical authority and no discussion of the institutionalization of criticism of such a scope), its material of analysis (most of the many hundred texts self-reflexively commenting on criticism that are discussed here have been so far virtually ignored) and through its results, a complex history of criticism in the 18th century that is neither reductive nor the accumulation of isolated aspects or author figures, but that probes into the very nature of the activity of criticism. The aim of this study is both to provide a thorough historical understanding of the emergence of criticism and as a consequence an understanding of the inner workings and power relations that structure criticism to this day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110362060
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035616-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036206-0
ISBN:: 9783110394757
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Literary History
Subject:: History of Literary Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture

Book 2014

Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture

Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics, 1680–1750

Christoph Henke

Volume 46 in this series

While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343403
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034335-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034340-3
ISBN:: 9783110394979
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 18th Century
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Book 2014

Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Claudia Olk

Volume 45 in this series

The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf’s novels and her critical writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics.

An aesthetics of vision, as this study argues, becomes a productive principle of narrative. The visual is not only pertinent to Woolf’s processes of composition, but her works create a kind of vision that is proper to the text itself – a vision that reflects on the experience of seeing and renegotiates the relation between the reader and the text.

The study investigates key dimensions of aesthetic vision. It addresses vision in the context of theories of aesthetic experience and identifies a semantics of seeing. It analyses functions of symbolic materiality in the presentation of boundaries of perception, modes of temporality and poetic potentialities. In exploring the connections between vision and language, it seeks to provide new perspectives for a reassessment of what occurs in Modernism's relation to vision.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110340235
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034022-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034023-5
ISBN:: 9783110553918
ISBN:: 9783110393514
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Reformation of Romance

Book 2014

The Reformation of Romance

The Eucharist, Disguise, and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose Fiction

Christina Wald

Volume 44 in this series

This study takes a fresh look at the abundant scenarios of disguise in early modern prose fiction and suggests reading them in the light of the contemporary religio-political developments. More specifically, it argues that Elizabethan narratives adopt aspects of the heated Eucharist debate during the Reformation, including officially renounced notions like transubstantiation, to negotiate culturally pressing concerns regarding identity change.

Drawing on the rich field of research on the adaptation of pre-Reformation concerns in Anglican England, the book traces a cross-fertilisation between the Reformation and the literary mode of romance. The study brings together topics which are currently being strongly debated in early modern studies: the turn to religion, a renewed interest in aesthetics, and a growing engagement with prose fiction.

Narratives which are discussed in detail are William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat, Robert Greene’s Pandosto and Menaphon, Philip Sidney’s Old and New Arcadia, and Thomas Lodge’s Rosalynd and A Margarite of America, George Gascoigne’s Steele Glas, John Lyly’s Euphues: An Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, Barnabe Riche’s Farewell, Greene’s A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, and Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343380
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034334-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034338-0
ISBN:: 9783110394962
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Reformation Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Intermediales Text-Theater

Book 2014

Intermediales Text-Theater

Die Bühne des Politischen und des Wissens vom Menschen bei Wordsworth und Scott

Kai Merten

Volume 43 in this series

This book discovers the latent working of the theatre in British Romantic literature. It shows how two central writers, Wordsworth and Scott, were fascinated by theatre conceptions that could not be implemented on the British stage, and how they both addressed and practised this theatre in their own texts.

The book works out the importance of the theatre both as a medium and as a discursive field to address aesthetic, political and epistemic questions around 1800. It proceeds to explore the failing implementation of this modern theatre in early dramas of Wordsworth and Scott and its continuing influence on their later works. Detailed analyses of Wordsworth’s poetry and Scott’s novels illustrate how both writers used the genres they chose to develop a specific form of textual theatre. Finally, the study shows how this theatre returned to the British stage to influence subsequent periods of theatre practice.

This book, which also develops a new integrative model of intermediality, is relevant for everybody interested in British Romanticism or generally keen to learn about the fascinating relationship of literature and theatre.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339000
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032655-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033900-0
ISBN:: 9783110393996
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Translating Jazz Into Poetry

Book 2017

Translating Jazz Into Poetry

From Mimesis to Metaphor

Erik Redling

Volume 42 in this series

The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. Currently, the mimetic approach to intermediality (e.g., the notion that jazz poetry imitates jazz music) still dominates the field of criticism. This book challenges that interpretive approach. It demonstrates that a mimetic view of jazz poetry hinders readers from perceiving the metaphoric ways poets rendered music in writing. Drawing on and extending recent cognitive metaphor theories (Lakoff, Johnson, Turner, Fauconnier), it promotes a conceptual metaphor model that allows readers to discover the innovative ways poets translate “melody,” “dynamics,” “tempo,” “mood,” and other musical elements into literal and figurative expressions that invite readers to imagine the music in their mind’s eye (i.e., their mind’s ear).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
ISBN:: 9783110339017
ISBN:: 9783110395280
ISBN:: 9783110326543
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: 21st Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Subject:: Music
Subject:: Styles and Genres
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: "My unwasht Muse"

Book 2009

"My unwasht Muse"

(De-)Konstruktionen der Erotik in der englischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts

Norbert Lennartz

Volume 41 in this series

In the 17th century a profound change took place in the depiction of the body and the erotic. Whilst the metaphysics of Donne and Crashaw represented theology under the sign of the erotic and simultaneously theologized the corporeal, the Cavaliers had severed these alliances since the 1620’s. Influenced by the invention of the stage figure, Don Juan, poets such as Carew, Suckling and the Earl of Rochester cast the erotic as quantitative greatness, thereby laying the corner stone of the misogynist pornography of later centuries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971295
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42141-7
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97129-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Emotion
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Raumkonstitution durch Sprache

Book 2009

Raumkonstitution durch Sprache

Blickführung, Bildschemata und Kohäsion in Deskriptionssequenzen englischer Texte

Christoph Schubert

Volume 40 in this series

The study examines the linguistic devices used in English texts to constitute an imagined space before the reader's “inner eye.” For this, it has recourse to text types such as travel guides or factual geographical texts wnich describe visually perceptible scenarios. The focus is on the sequence in which the elements of the space are introduced, and from this a classification is derived of different ways in which the reader’s eye is led. On this basis, the relevant effects and functions are analysed of different strategies for constituting space.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971301
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42140-0
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97130-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Visual Communication
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Angles of Contingency

Book 2007

Angles of Contingency

Literarische Kultur im England des 17.Jahrhunderts

Ingo Berensmeyer

Volume 39 in this series

Ingo Berensmeyer analyzes the functional and material conditions of literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700. In a series of case studies he demonstrates how experiences of contingency lead to a fundamental realignment of literary effects. In the process, a new cultural configuration emerges, affecting a wide array of social practices and institutions from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility. The book thus offers a timely reassessment of English neoclassicism, the much neglected period between Shakespeare and the novel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110934885
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42139-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093488-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Theoretische Welten und literarische Transformationen

Book 2004

Theoretische Welten und literarische Transformationen

Die Naturwissenschaften im Spiegel der 'science studies' und der englischen Literatur des ausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts

Dirk Vanderbeke

Volume 38 in this series

This study is concerned with the latest developments in the relationship between literature and the natural sciences. The first part revolves around a critical engagement with the 'science wars', and notably with the subject of 'rhetoric in the natural sciences'. Here an attempt is made to fathom the potential for productive interdisciplinary endeavour above and beyond the existing conflicts. Part Two casts a critical eye on recent positions in connection with the literary processing of scientific subjects and cultural interdependencies. This is followed by studies of literary texts in which a well-informed and creative approach to scientific concepts is discernible.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914290
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42138-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091429-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Knowledge
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Text – Textsorte – Sprachgeschichte

Book 2004

Text – Textsorte – Sprachgeschichte

Englische Partizipial- und Gerundialkonstruktionen 1100 bis 1700

Thomas Kohnen

Volume 37 in this series

The study describes the evolution of English participial and gerundial constructions in Middle English and early modern English, concentrating in the process on the function of text varieties in language change. Building on a detailed analysis of all the relevant constructions in six text varieties taken from a revised version of the Helsinki Corpus, the author demonstrates that the proliferation of the main construction types through text varieties takes place in an ordered sequence. The function of text varieties in language change is identified as that of a catalyst.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914306
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42137-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091430-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sexualität und Tod

Book 2002

Sexualität und Tod

Eine Themenverknüpfung in der englischen Schauer- und Sensationsliteratur und ihrem soziokulturellen Kontext (1764-1897)

Franz Meier

Volume 36 in this series

The study deals with the thematic combination of 'sexuality and death' in order to explore the functional-structural relationship between literary and cultural discourses and its historical changes. The areas of investigation are English culture between the late 18th and the late 19th century as well as the gothic and sensation narratives of the time. A thorough theoretical foundation is followed first by an investigation of historical developments in the cultural discourses of sexuality and death, and then by extensive analyses of texts by Walpole, Lewis, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontk, Collins, Le Fanu, Wilde, Stoker and others.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914313
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42136-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091431-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Emotion
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Ekphrasis

Book 2001

Ekphrasis

Bildbeschreibung als Repräsentationstheorie bei Spenser, Sidney, Lyly und Shakespeare

Mario Klarer

Volume 35 in this series

This volume examines instances of ecphrasis (literary descriptions of pictures) in the works of English Renaissance authors against the background of Elizabethan theory formation on the problem of representation. References to (usually fictional) works of art in the works of Sidney, Spenser, Lyly and Shakespeare serve as a starting-point for a reconstruction of the prevalent theoretical climate in connection with the question of representation in late 16th century England. The working hypothesis here is that because of their dual representation structure (verbal representation of what is already a visual representation) literary descriptions of pictorial works reflect the issues and problems addressed by theories of representation in their respective epochs.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914320
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42135-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091432-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Subject:: Mediality, Intermediality
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Erziehung zur Tugend

Book 1997

Erziehung zur Tugend

Frauenrollen und der englische Roman um 1800

Silvia Mergenthal

Volume 34 in this series

This study is designed as a contribution to gender studies; it examines the (various different) ways in which gender roles are constructed in 18th century educational manuals and novels in English, focussing mainly on the contributions of female authors to bourgeois Enlightenment debate on the socialization of women and the role of women in society. Another concern of the book is to define the position of well-known women authors like Jane Austen or Fanny Burney within the literary landscape of the age, the tendency in the past having been to study them very much in isolation from it. For this purpose the present study marks off a sub-genre termed here weiblicher Erziehungsroman (educational novels by women) and examines the intertextual relations obtaining within that sub-genre. In so doing it seeks not least to rescue a number of less well-known women authors from the scholarly oblivion to which they have been relegated in literary studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919141
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42134-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091914-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Vermenschlichte Natur

Book 1995

Vermenschlichte Natur

Zur Bedeutung von Landschaft und Wetter im englischen Roman von Ann Radcliffe bis Thomas Hardy

Thomas Kullmann

Volume 33 in this series

In englischen Romanen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts dienen Schilderungen von Landschaft und Wetter der Verdeutlichung des Geschehens bzw. der Charakterisierung der Personen. Die Untersuchung analysiert diese Naturmotivik als komplexes Zeichensystem. Die Entwicklung dieses Erzählverfahrens, die von Anfängen im 18. Jahrhundert zur psychologischen Darstellungsknst in der Gothic Novel (Radcliffe, Maturin) und im viktorianischen Roman (Brontë Sisters, Dickens) und zur Naturphilosophie Thomas Hardys führt, wird an Textbeispielen nachgezeichnet.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940749
ISBN:: 9783110940749
ISBN:: 9783484421332
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Ästhetische Illusion und Illusionsdurchbrechung in der Erzählkunst

Book 1993

Ästhetische Illusion und Illusionsdurchbrechung in der Erzählkunst

Theorie und Geschichte mit Schwerpunkt auf englischem illusionsstörenden Erzählen

Werner Wolf

Volume 32 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927696
ISBN:: 9783110927696
ISBN:: 9783484421325
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sense of Place

Book 1993

Sense of Place

Regionalität und Raumbewußtsein in der neueren britischen Lyrik

Elmar Schenkel

Volume 31 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940640
ISBN:: 9783110940640
ISBN:: 9783484421318
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Nominalkomposita im Frühmittelenglischen

Book 1992

Nominalkomposita im Frühmittelenglischen

Mit Ausblicken auf die Geschichte der englischen Nominalkomposition

Hans Sauer

Volume 30 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940657
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42130-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094065-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Abschied, Reise und Wiedersehen bei Shakespeare

Book 1989

Abschied, Reise und Wiedersehen bei Shakespeare

Zur Gestaltung und Funktion epischer und romanhafter Motive im Drama

Thomas Kullmann

Volume 29 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940664
ISBN:: 9783110940664
ISBN:: 9783484421295
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Londondichtung als Politik

Book 1989

Londondichtung als Politik

Texte und Kontexte der 'City Poetry' von der Restauration bis zum Ende der Walpole-Ära

Michael Gassenmeier

Volume 28 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940671
ISBN:: 9783110940671
ISBN:: 9783484421288
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: "Dignity in Simplicity"

Book 1988

"Dignity in Simplicity"

Studien zur Prosaliteratur des englischen Methodismus im 18. Jahrhundert

Heimo Ertl

Volume 27 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940688
ISBN:: 9783110940688
ISBN:: 9783484421271
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: 'Poetic Justice'

Book 1986

'Poetic Justice'

Theorie und Geschichte einer literarischen Doktrin. Begriff – Idee – Komödienkonzeption

Wolfgang Zach

Volume 26 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110941654
ISBN:: 9783110941654
ISBN:: 9783484421264
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Beinflussung des Lesers

Book 1986

Die Beinflussung des Lesers

Untersuchungen zum pragmatischen Wirkungspotential viktorianischer Romane zwischen 1844 und 1872

Norbert H. Platz

Volume 25 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110931891
ISBN:: 9783110931891
ISBN:: 9783484421257
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Londoner Music Hall und ihre Songs 1850–1920

Book 1984

Die Londoner Music Hall und ihre Songs 1850–1920

Ulrich Schneider

Volume 24 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110932478
ISBN:: 9783110932478
ISBN:: 9783484421240
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Music
Subject:: Music, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Frauenklage

Book 1984

Die Frauenklage

Studien zur elegischen Verserzählung in der englischen Literatur des Spätmittelalters und der Renaissance

Götz Schmitz

Volume 23 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943191
ISBN:: 9783110943191
ISBN:: 9783484421233
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Categorial Grammar and Word-Formation: The De-adjectival Abstract Noun in English

Book 1982

Categorial Grammar and Word-Formation: The De-adjectival Abstract Noun in English

Karl Reichl

Volume 22 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943207
ISBN:: 9783110943207
ISBN:: 9783484421226
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: "The Rebel Muse"

Book 1982

"The Rebel Muse"

Studien zu Swifts kritischer Dichtung

Arno Löffler

Volume 21 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943214
ISBN:: 9783110943214
ISBN:: 9783484421219
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Das englische Kunstmärchen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert

Book 1981

Das englische Kunstmärchen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert

Dieter Petzold

Volume 20 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943221
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42022-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094322-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Francis Quarles 1592–1644

Book 1978

Francis Quarles 1592–1644

Meditativer Dichter, Emblematiker, Royalist. Eine biographische und kritische Studie

Karl Josef Höltgen

Volume 19 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940022
ISBN:: 9783110940022
ISBN:: 9783484420212
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Lyrik der Spenserianer

Book 1977

Die Lyrik der Spenserianer

Ansätze zu einer absoluten Dichtung in England 1590–1660

Ina Schabert

Volume 18 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110937671
ISBN:: 9783110937671
ISBN:: 9783484420205
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Dying Shepherd

Book 1976

The Dying Shepherd

Die Tradition der englischen Ekloge von Pope bis Wordsworth

Raimund Borgmeier

Volume 17 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110937688
ISBN:: 9783110937688
ISBN:: 9783484420199
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 19th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Speculum, Mirror und Looking-Glass

Book 1973

Speculum, Mirror und Looking-Glass

Kontinuität und Originalität der Spiegelmetapher in den Buchtiteln des Mittelalters und der englischen Literatur des 13.–17. Jahrhunderts

Herbert Grabes

Volume 16 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952742
ISBN:: 9783110952742
ISBN:: 9783484420182
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Liturgische Feiern und geistliche Spiele

Book 1970

Liturgische Feiern und geistliche Spiele

Studien zu Erscheinungsformen des Dramatischen im Mittelalter

Theo Stemmler

Volume 15 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952759
ISBN:: 9783110952759
ISBN:: 9783484420113
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Liturgical Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Chaucer und seine Zeit

Book 1968

Chaucer und seine Zeit

Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer

Arno Esch

Volume 14 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952766
ISBN:: 9783110952766
ISBN:: 9783484420106
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Studien zum komischen Epos

Book 1968

Studien zum komischen Epos

Ein Beitrag zur Deutung, Typologie und Geschichte des komischen Epos im englischen Klassizismus 1680–1800

Ulrich Broich

Volume 13 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952773
ISBN:: 9783110952773
ISBN:: 9783484420090
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Hymnar und Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter

Book 1968

Hymnar und Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter

Studien zur Überlieferung, Glossierung und Übersetzung lateinischer Hymnen in England. Mit einer Textausgabe der lateinisch-altenglischen Expositio Hymnorum

Helmut Gneuss

Volume 12 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952780
ISBN:: 978-3-484-42008-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095278-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die englische Heiligenlegende des Mittelalters

Book 1964

Die englische Heiligenlegende des Mittelalters

Eine Formgeschichte des Legendenerzählens von der spätantiken lateinischen Tradition bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts

Theodor Wolpers

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111727318
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098219-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-172731-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Homer und die englische Humanität

Book 1958

Homer und die englische Humanität

Chapmans und Popes Übersetzungskunst im Rahmen der humanistischen Tradition

Rudolf Sühnel

Volume 7 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953930
ISBN:: 9783110953930
ISBN:: 9783484420045
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das persönliche Menschenbild Matthew Arnolds in der dichterischen Gestaltung

Book 1955

Das persönliche Menschenbild Matthew Arnolds in der dichterischen Gestaltung

Gerhard Müller-Schwefe

Volume 6 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953947
ISBN:: 9783110953947
ISBN:: 9783484420168
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 19th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Englische religiöse Lyrik des 17. Jahrhunderts

Book 1955

Englische religiöse Lyrik des 17. Jahrhunderts

Studien zu Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan

Arno Esch

Volume 5 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111626024
ISBN:: 9783111626024
ISBN:: 9783111248127
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Die Weltanschauung Henry Fieldings

Book 1952

Die Weltanschauung Henry Fieldings

Wolfgang Iser

Volume 3 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326290
ISBN:: 978-3-11-098311-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-132629-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Zinn und Zink

Book 1952

Zinn und Zink

Studien zur abendländischen Wortgeschichte

Hermann M. Flasdieck

Volume 2 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111324494
ISBN:: 9783111324494
ISBN:: 9783110982213
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: John Lydgate

Book 1952

John Lydgate

Ein Kulturbild aus dem 15. Jahrhundert

Walter F. Schirmer

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960099
ISBN:: 9783110960099
ISBN:: 9783484420175
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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